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Beyond being headline news (how often does a major faith admit to retooling its take on the afterlife?), the shift, telegraphed in the 1994 Catechism, should strike most believers as a very good thing. For centuries, Catholic couples lived in fear that in the tragic event that their newborns perished, the infants would go not to heaven but to a cheery yet inaccessible outer parking lot, a locale where they would enjoy eternal happiness but be denied the actual presence of God (and, presumably, of the parents, assuming they reached heaven...
...attack is likely to shift attention within India to the question of how well prepared the country's outsourcing centers are for terror strikes. In a press statement released immediately after the terror attack, NASSCOM, the trade body for India's technology sector, stated that the country's outsourcing companies already have many security measures in place; however, it said that the incident ?highlights the need to review and upgrade these.?-with reporting by Habib Beary in Bangalore
...union and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) had already come close to an agreement that would get the trains rolling again. Shuttle diplomacy by a few low-profile labor mediators convinced the union to call off the strike, even without a contract, in time for the 4 p.m. shift to go straight to work. It took all night to get the hulking transit system back online safely, so Gotham faced one last strikebound slog home Thursday evening. During the late evening, scores of weary walkers rushed down subway stairs at a couple of stations at the rumble of subway trains...
...cool things that await them in the future - maybe even as a holiday gift. Some, however, were troubled by the ethical implications of the cloned dog Snuppy I truly enjoyed your selection of the best new inventions [Nov. 28]. I liked the ENV hydrogen-powered motorcycle and the Shift tricycle, whose rear wheels move closer together at higher speeds and separate for balance at slower ones. But I was most impressed by the LifeStraw [a drinking tube with powerful filters that can prevent waterborne infections, which kill millions of people in the developing world]. I've traveled to areas where...
...challenge of "stupid poverty"--the people who die for want of a $2 pill because they live on $1 a day--was enough to draw Gates away from Microsoft years before he intended to shift his focus from making money to giving it away. He and Melinda looked around and recognized a systems failure. "Those lives were being treated as if they weren't valuable," Gates told FORTUNE in 2002. "Well, when you have the resources that could make a very big impact, you can't just say to yourself, 'O.K., when I'm 60, I'll get around...